Powell's City of Books
1005 W. Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Beth Piatote with Joan Naviyuk Kane at Powell’s City of Books for a reading and conversation of her latest work, distant water.
Beth Piatote
Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a scholar of Native American literature and law, Beth Piatote focuses on the endangerment of Indigenous languages. As an activist, she moves against the current of English-language colonization, working to rescue and revitalize the language of her people. Language, she posits, is an expression of land, a means through which we can travel great distances.